Quotes About Empathy

Whatever people give you, give it back to them times ten. Be ready, always, to take everything to the next level. Someone's nice to you, make it your job to improve their day, give them a laugh or a pat on the back. But someone comes at you with attitude, or looking for a fight, you drop the fuckin' sky on their heads. Be ready either way, every day.

What is friendship, if not a chance to indulge in mutual self-pity?

Men enjoy the happiness they feel. We can only enjoy the happiness we give.

Si vives tu vida con compasión, amas a los demás y te dejas guiar por la pura y clara voz del corazón, tu espíritu crecerá.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

If you have succeeded in winning people's hearts by friendliness, simplicity and courtesy, the secret lay in this: that you were not thinking of yourself. Hold fast this mystic power; it is a spark from Heaven.

He revealed his own character when he wrote, "I seem to be here to care more for others than for myself, and am well content with this destiny.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

I believe that Jesus would have given His life for just one person. Jesus emptied Himself, He humbled Himself and He so yielded Himself to His Father's love that He had no ambition of His own. He was not looking to build an empire, He did not want praise or adulation or to impress people with who or how many followed Him. He stopped over and over again for just one person, for just one life.

Mother Teresa said: Today it is very fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them.2

And His heart is always to heal the sick person.

When I held Beatrice, I caught scabies and lice. But it didn't matter. My only goal is to love more.

When a poor person dies of hunger, it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

Because the doctors could not cure me, they decided I could not be sick. They told me it was all in my head. Namely, I was to blame. I was the sickness.

You are a medium," Marta said. "Although so is everybody a medium, an involuntary host to free-floating misery. But you're a more available one.

I wanted to escape my head because my head is so stupid these days. I wanted to be inside someone else's head.

I believe that when you put a smile out there, you get a smile back.

Kids who know they're cared for and cared about have fewer behavioral problems and stronger relationships. •

Taking the time to watch, listen to, and discern your baby's nonverbal cues won't only make your job of providing care easier, but it'll make your baby's job of taking on the world easier. Knowing that what he or she has to say matters will boost not only your baby's language development, but also his or her confidence, sense of security, and emotional maturity, not only now, but in the lifetime that lies ahead.

I said I had a three-year-old with broken fingers, and you said, 'Maybe he owed somebody money.'" "Yes

Sometimes people aren't nice,' I began. 'Then why are you always telling me to be nice?' Because someone has to break the cycle. Kindness can be contagious. And it has to start somewhere, right?

In comparison to what I've suffered from myself, the humiliation and suffering inflicted on me by others vanishes into insignificance.

If the dead could speak there would be no more war. Heinrich Böll; "The Stories of Heinrich Böll"

Olvidé mencionar que soy sensible no sólo a la melancolía y a la jaqueca, sino que poseo, además, otro don casi místico: puedo percibir olores por teléfono (Bóll, Heinrich. Opiniones de un payaso, trad. Lucas Casas. México: Seix Barral, 2005 p. 14).